The energy world is flat : opportunities from the end of peak oil /
A stronger, more informed approach to the energy markets The Energy World Is Flat provides a forward-lookinganalysis of the energy markets and addresses the implications oftheir rapid transformation. Written by acknowledged expert DanielLacalle, who is actively engaged with energy portfolios in thef...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom :
John Wiley & Sons,
2015.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Disclaimer
- Chapter 1 The Mother of All Battles. The Flattening and Globalization of the Energy World
- Nuclear politics
- The sustained spike in natural gas prices
- Fracking and the collapse in US natural gas prices
- US tight oil
- Geopolitics and high crude oil prices
- Expensive oil, cheap natural gas
- The market does not attack, it defends itself
- Winners and losers
- Chapter 2 Lessons from the Internet Revolution and the Dotcom Bubble
- The bubble path
- Technological revolutions that increase supply. The "game changers"
- High expectations attract large amounts of capital
- Excessive expectations for demand growth result in overcapacity
- Think "against the box"
- The strategic premium results in overcapacity
- Overcapacity eventually reprices assets and the cost of services
- New technologies displace older and more expensive ones
- New technologies increase competition and create deflationary forces
- The bubble accelerated the impact of the revolution
- Timing: there is no such thing as a crystal ball
- Investors must avoid the growth mirage and value traps
- Lessons not to forget
- Chapter 3 The 10 Forces that are Flattening the Energy World
- Is the energy world flat?
- Chapter 4 Flattener #1
- Geopolitics: The Two Sides of the Energy Security Coin
- The oil weapon
- The revenge of the oil economy
- The Arab Spring
- Iraq 2014, the crisis that brought prices ... down!
- The Venezuelan Spring
- Reserve nationalism and barriers of entry
- The gas weapon
- Russia versus Ukraine and the west?
- Ukraine shale gas
- The annexation of Crimea
- Europe needs Russia's gas ... but for how long?
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Flattener #2
- The Energy Reserves and Resources Glut
- What energy scarcity?
- Reserves and resources.
- Crude oil concentration, but no shortage
- OPEC almighty
- Reserve protectionism
- Marginal cost of production
- The "unconventional" resources
- Discoveries vs. additions: "can we rely on finding new oil fields?"
- Sorry, no peak oil
- Peak oil is a myth
- The spirit of peak oil
- No Peak Gas Either
- Gas formulas: "Water at Coca-Cola prices"
- Finally an Asian benchmark
- Let's buy Africa!
- Notes
- Chapter 6 Flattener #3
- Horizontal Drilling and Fracking
- Never bet against an engineer
- Technology increases volume
- Innovation vs. imitation
- "Fracking" and horizontal drilling
- Myths and realities of shale gas and tight oil
- What environmental impact?
- What contamination of drinking water aquifers?
- What flow back?
- How about water scarcity?
- What induced seismic activity?
- What methane migration?
- Are horizontal drilling and fracking commercially viable?
- Are governments supportive of fracking?
- How about shale gas and tight oil in China?
- What about the EROEI of shale gas?
- Notes
- Chapter 7 Flattener #4
- The Energy Broadband
- Pipelines open new markets
- Pipelines are very capital- and time-intensive investments
- The Eurasian continental network
- LNG and the globalization of natural gas
- From regional to global
- LNG super-cycle
- The winners and losers of the big asset write-off
- Solid methane
- Storage bottlenecks and commodity islands
- The high watermark and volatility dampeners
- Global strategic petroleum reserves
- Shipping, floating pipelines and storage
- The boom and bust of shipping
- Debottlenecking and super-backwardation
- Notes
- Chapter 8 Flattener #5
- Overcapacity
- Déjà-Vu
- Diplomatic demand outlook
- Saudi Arabia heavy sour crude oil
- Location, location, location
- Pro-cyclical behaviour
- Notes.
- Chapter 9 Flattener #6
- Globalization, Industrialization, and Urbanization
- Testing the hypothesis of "Ever-Increasing" demand
- Demographic trend #1. The global population is growing, but at a slower pace
- Population growth vs. economic growth vs. energy demand growth
- The "Diplomatic" demand clause
- Notes
- Chapter 10 Flattener #7
- Demand Destruction
- More with less
- The "Invisible Hand" of efficiency
- The "Visible Hand" of efficiency
- Note
- Chapter 11 Flattener #8
- Demand Displacement
- The Battle for Transportation Demand
- What the production engineers missed
- The "Challengers"
- Biofuels
- Natural gas
- Bi-fuel engines
- Coal to liquids (CTL) and gas to liquids (GTL)
- Electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids (HEVs)
- Air transportation
- Sea transportation
- The end of crude oil's monopoly in transportation
- #1 Upfront cost
- #2 Running cost
- #3 Range and convenience
- The "Chicken and Egg" of Refuelling Stations
- Re-fuelling at home
- #4 Performance
- #5 Environment and subsidies
- #6 Safety
- #7 Security of supply
- The new frontier: hydrogen fuel
- "Who killed the electric car?"
- #1 Government bail-outs and subsidies
- #2 The tax cash cow
- #3 The wrong model for the industry?
- The Battle for Electricity and Industrial Demand
- Future fuel mix
- The Energy Domino
- Natural gas displaces coal in power generation
- US natural gas displaces diesel in transportation
- Solar displaces crude oil for power generation in Saudi Arabia
- Renewables displace natural gas from peak power demand
- The "visible hand" of environmental regulation displaces coal
- The "visible hand" of politics displaces nuclear
- The transmission to equity valuations
- Notes
- Chapter 12 Flattener #9
- Regulation and Government Intervention
- The role of the government
- Regulation vs. free markets.
- The virtuous mix of regulation and free markets
- The vicious mix of regulation and politics
- Carrot and stick
- Privatization and deregulation are not the same
- Independence of the regulator
- The political cycle is too short
- The War on Pollution and Coal
- The war on pollution
- The war on coal
- Technology vs. pollution
- Regulatory constraints to coal plants
- Coal subsidies
- The clean and dirty spreads
- Second order effects from cheap coal
- The world of coal is flat
- Renewable Energy and the Disinflation of Power Prices
- Negative electricity prices
- The collapse in the valuation of European utilities
- Renewables have changed the rules of power generation
- Implications from the new rules
- Are retail consumers better off?
- The world of wind power is becoming flat
- Don Quixote's windmills
- Wind power
- Wind competitiveness
- The world of solar power is far from flat
- Germany and the European Union love affair with solar
- The debacle of solar equities
- What went wrong?
- Marginal cost of solar PV is getting cheaper
- Solar leasing and green bonds
- Biofuels and Food Inflation
- Energy security in disguise
- The "regulatory carrot"
- The "regulatory stick"
- Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs)
- The "ethanol blend wall"
- Food inflation and inequality
- Shortages and physical hoarding as flatteners
- Energy efficiency of biofuels
- Meat prices: "corn with legs"
- The super-cycle of farmland and agricultural logistical infrastructure
- Genetically modified crops
- A flatter agricultural world
- Notes
- Chapter 13 Flattener #10
- Fiscal, Monetary, and Macroeconomic Flatteners
- The "OPEC put"
- At what level would OPEC stop defending the price?
- The Btu that broke OPEC's back
- Energy consumption in producing countries
- Mortgaged future production
- The paradox of plenty.
- The Oil Tax Weapon
- Consumer governments addicted to oil taxes
- Consumer governments hostage of oil subsidies
- Government defence budgets
- Marshmallow behaviour
- Let's change the tax rules
- Monetary Experiments and the Credit Risk Time Bomb
- Monetary experiments
- Black gold
- The race to the bottom
- The generational debate
- The monetary time bomb of credit risk
- Financial Flows. Let's Blame the Speculators
- Politicians and regulators pass the blame
- Causality
- Market manipulation
- Investor blow-ups
- Value at risk
- Notes
- Chapter 14 Implications and Opportunities in the Financial Markets
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Appendix For A Competitive European Energy Policy
- Index
- EULA.